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Barbora Zychova

Barbora Zychova

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http://barborazychova.com/blogs/en is a blog for people who have passion for technology – mainly general public and students with emphasis on women. One of its aims is to "translate" difficult terminology into an easy to understand language. It's written in two language variations – English and Czech.

Frame Your Friends!

Blog.PostedBy: Barbora Zychova | Feb 28th @ 5:48 AM
There are 17,375 applications on Facebook today, including two new ones I'm going to write about - Framed Again! Gadget and Office Poke! Gadget.
The first one allowes you to make an exchange of photos more fun. All you have to do is go to the special Framed Again! gallery, choose a frame with head-shaped cutout you like, include your friend's photo and save it.
Frames include office-related themes such as "Employee of the Day", magazines, album covers or fantasy business cards. 
Users can upload their photo directly into the frames and post them on a friend’s Facebook page. It's very easy to resize, rotate and color the photo in a way that it will fit right into the pre-made frame.

Office Poke! gadget gives more options to all those who already like to SuperPoke! their friends. Users can engage in a common office-based behavior from having lunch with friends/co-workers to throwing a stapler at them. You can even explain why have you decided to punish
them - e.g. for having a questionable bathroom hygiene or having a really, really bad haircut.
More Office Poke! you use, more poking powers you get. After sending just 5 of them you get promoted from an Intern to the Office Gossip Coordinator.
Over the time you'll gain the authority to fire, hire, promote or demote your employees... ehm friends.
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Strawberries need SpaceS

Blog.PostedBy: Barbora Zychova | Jan 23rd @ 7:12 AM


Until recently I have known only one person who loves strawberries ("jahody" in Czech) so much that he names his stuff after them. He even owns a Strawberry Island in online world of Second Life where you can get various T-shirts, drinks and also tattoos. With strawberries, of course...I was offered a friendship by a young woman called Yahoodka through my Spaces few days ago. I have never accepted any similar requests from strangers. Neither on Spaces nor on Facebook.However, I have decided to make an exemption this time since I have realized that we both have something in common - we had both lived in Australia for few years.Today I have decided to check out her Spaces and was fascinated by a sentence "I was not able to add any more strawberry photos since I have reached my maximum monthly allowance". You can add up to 500 photos per month there, so I was curious to see this "strawberry usage". Well, have a look for yourself. It´s worth it and as Yahoodka promises more will come next month... In general, Spaces are becoming more and more popular. Nowadays even TV personalities have their account there. As Filip Rozanek mentioned in the Czech magazine Reflex, for example TV news host Petr Tichy is amongs them. If you or someone you know have Spaces worth looking at, let me know. I´ll write about them in some of my next blog posts.
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The Best Things are for Free...

Blog.PostedBy: Barbora Zychova | Jan 21st @ 7:47 AM

I have some great news for those of you who are Xbox fans - a game Undertow free of charge!
The full version of this award-winning Xbox LIVE Arcade game will be available for download from next Wednesday 2 a.m. PST till Sunday 11:59 p.m. PST.
It's free for silver and gold Xbox LIVE subscribers worldwide. More info is available in this article on Channel 8.
Just to make it clear - Channel 8 is mainly for students, Channel 9 for developers and Channel 10 for technology enthusiasts.
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Don't be boring!

Blog.PostedBy: Barbora Zychova | Jan 17th @ 6:19 AM
Posts that you write for your blog on Spaces don't have to look ordinary = boring. I have a tip for you.
A tip for a website where you can find various different backgrounds.
Each of your blog posts could have a different theme from now on. It will be appreciated especially by those of you who are into fantasy.
All you have to do is: click here, choose your preferred background and download and insert html into your blog.
You can find more instructions here. Don't forget to send me a link to your modified post!
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ALWAYS READY TO CHAT

Blog.PostedBy: Barbora Zychova | Jan 8th @ 3:00 PM
If you've ever dreamed about how great it would be to have the possibility to chat with your friends while using a public computer e.g. in the library, Internet café or in your friend's house but you coudn't because there was no Messenger installed I have some news for you.
You can do it now with new MSN Web Messenger. It differs from the "traditional" Windows Live Messenger since it doesn't have to be installed on the computer you are going to use for your chatting.
All you need is a computer with an Internet connection and then just type http://webmessenger.msn.com in your web browser (no later versions than Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, Netscape 7.1 or Mozilla 1.6).
If you use Explorer you can also add this site to your "favourites" straight away by clicking Ctrl+D.
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